"You came here specifically to tell me this?" When Chen Ke heard that there was still an endless official struggle, he immediately lost interest: "What does this have to do with me?"
"It has something to do with it," Zhao Zongji said calmly: "The officials want to see you..."
"See me..." Chen Ke's expression suddenly solidified. The latest chapter of the Holy Temple
"Well." Zhao Zongji ordered outside: "Let's go."
"Where to go?"
"Enter the palace."
"It's so urgent, you have to let me change my clothes, right?"
"It looks good in this outfit."
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On the way to the palace, Chen Ke was a little nervous: "This... is too sudden."
"I thought you didn't know what nervousness is." Zhao Zongji smiled and said in a low voice: "I came to the palace today to say hello. I told the officials about the attack on you last month. The officials were kind and said, "You
Let’s take him here.”
"..." Chen Ke felt a little moved in his heart. How could he not know? As someone who has been summoned by the officials, those people will definitely throw a wrench into the trap, and his own safety will definitely be guaranteed.
"Not just to give you a good look," Zhao Zongji said softly: "At this juncture, I will probably ask about Liuta River. What are you going to say?"
"..." Chen Ke looked at Zhao Zongji: "What do you mean?"
"The two prime ministers of culture and wealth have a good reputation, and they are young and powerful, so they have a long future..." Zhao Zongji said slowly: "If you don't give them any face, I'm afraid you will be in trouble in the future."
Chen Ke knew that Zhao Zongji was doing this for his own good. For a newcomer who was preparing to enter the officialdom, making the young leader jealous would have a serious negative impact on the entire career. "" And unfortunately, the two
The prime ministers are all recognized as 'gentlemen'. If you go against them, you won't even get a good reputation...
"Who is afraid?!" Chen Ke sneered: "At worst, I can go back to my hometown in Sichuan and ask me to wipe the butt of these hypocrites. Don't even think about it!" I finally saved my life. An Neng bowed to the powerful, which made me feel embarrassed.
?
"Alas..." Zhao Zongji smiled bitterly and said, "Then what kind of Jinshi are you going to take?"
"After ten years of hard work, I have to give myself an explanation." Chen Ke said coldly: "I originally planned that if the official was happy, I would be fooled for a few years, which would be an explanation to the court. If he was not happy, I would go back immediately.
Go home and live my yamen life happily."
"Yamen?" Zhao Zongji asked in astonishment: "Do you still have such ideals?"
"I told you so."
"I thought you were joking."
"I also thought it was a joke that the officials of the Song Dynasty did not distinguish between black and white."
"..."
"..." The carriage fell into silence, and neither of them spoke.
When he was approaching Xuandemen, Zhao Zongji gently pressed Chen Ke's shoulder and whispered: "You can say whatever you want."
"Will my words be taken as your meaning?" Chen Ke understood.
"Well, I called you into the palace. They will naturally think that you are saying something for me that is not convenient for me to say." Zhao Zongji smiled casually and said: "Never mind them, what does my idle clan want? You just say it.
It’s such a pleasure!”
"..." Chen Ke was silent again.
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If you want to choose the most magnificent palace in the history of China, there will definitely be some debate, but if you want to choose the most shabby, there is no controversy, it must be the Zhao family palace in Bianjing in the Northern Song Dynasty. Its predecessor was the Imperial Palace of the Xuanwu Army in the Tang Dynasty
After the Liang Dynasty, the government office was renamed Jianchang Palace, which started the history of this place being an imperial palace.
Afterwards, it went through the Later Jin Dynasty and the Later Zhou Dynasty, and it was the turn of this dynasty to take over. In the third year of Jianlong, Zhao Kuangyin, who had stabilized the regime, finally recruited craftsmen and ordered people to build them according to the palace system of Luoyang in the Tang Dynasty. However, because the surrounding residents refused to move,
The emperor of the Song Dynasty did not know what forced demolition was, so in the end he had to combine the imperial city and the palace city into one, locating some central government offices in the front of the palace, and placing the emperor's bedroom, the concubine's palace, and some palace facilities behind the palace.
part, separated by an east-west horizontal street in the middle.
If you draw it as an aerial view, you will find that the palaces of other dynasties have strict central axes, pay attention to symmetry, and strict laws. Only the palace of the Song Dynasty, although every part pays attention to laws, but the whole is stacked like building blocks.
At the same time, we just want complete functions and don’t care about anything else...
Of course, the so-called "shabby" is also because compared vertically in the long river of history, in this era alone, the Song Dynasty Palace was still the most magnificent building complex in the world. Every citizen who stands under Xuande Gate for the first time will be deeply moved.
I am shocked by its tallness and majesty.
But Chen Ke is not included, because the shape of Xuande Gate is the same as the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City in later generations, and it is one size smaller. It is said that it was once difficult to overcome the difficulties. For those who have visited the Forbidden City in Beijing, it is difficult to find another palace that can satisfy them.
What a fuss.
After entering Xuandemen, a majestic palace located on the three-story Danbi came to mind. This is the Daqing Hall, which is equivalent to the Taihe Hall in later generations. This made Chen Ke feel uncomfortable, because in the Taihe Hall and the Wu Palace
Between the gates, there is the Gate of Supreme Harmony, two large open squares in the north and south, showing the royal atmosphere.
But in the palace of the Song Dynasty, the main hall is reached as soon as you enter the palace gate. There is only a three-story platform in front of the palace as a buffer. It is much uglier than the Forbidden City. It seems that the rumor that they do not compete with the people for land is true... This makes Chen Ke
I finally have a better impression of the officials of the Song Dynasty.
"Go this way." Zhao Zongji signaled Chen Ke to turn right, walk east along the north corridor, enter the left Changqing Gate, go north for about a mile, pass the left Yintai Gate, and go on the East-West Street that separates the inner and outer palaces. Here
After walking on the Imperial Corridor for another mile or so, when they arrived in front of the Chui Gong Hall, Zhao Zongji said, "We're here."
After leading Chen Ke into the Chui Gong Hall, Zhao Zongji asked the eunuch to go in and report. While waiting, a young eunuch invited the two of them to the wing room to warm themselves by the fire, and brought them ginger soup and two pairs of clean shoes... Although they were holding umbrellas
, but along the way, the two of them were still wet, especially the shoes on their feet, which were completely soaked.
After the two of them were done playing around, the chamberlain also came to tell the story.
The two people quickly got up, held their breath, and walked through the layers of curtains to the entrance of the imperial hall. They saw a middle-aged man wearing a blue gauze robe, jade hairpin, kind eyebrows, and a sick face, sitting on the bed and smiling at them.
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"My son, I'm meeting my uncle..." Zhao Zongji immediately bowed deeply.
"The common people pay homage to the saint." Chen Ke also hurriedly bowed deeply... On the way here, he had repeatedly confirmed that this was the etiquette for courtiers in the Song Dynasty to meet the emperor. Although he knew it was because the 'kneeling ceremony' had not been invented, but
He still felt secretly happy... It was so good that he didn't have to bow and kowtow repeatedly.
"Get on your feet." A gentle voice said: "Ji'er, this is Chen Sanlang."
"Yes, uncle." Zhao Zongji said, "This is Chen Ke."
"Well..." The official looked at Chen Ke with a smile, and saw that he was tall, with broad shoulders and a thin waist. He looked very heroic. He was also wearing the white shirt and belt of a university student, and his brows could not hide his bookish look.
It gave people a feeling of being both civilized and military. He couldn't help but smile and praised: "Chen Sijian has raised a good son!"
Chen Ke was also secretly looking at Song Dynasty. This gentle middle-aged uncle's words and demeanor made people feel like spring breeze. If it were not for the fact that he could not be fake in this palace, he would really not be able to connect him with the king of a country.
"Don't be restrained, your father and I will soon become brothers-in-law," the official said with a smile, "Come to think of it, you have to call me uncle..."
"..." Chen Ke is so sweaty. Although they joke like this in private, who dares to marry this relative? He kept saying "dare not".
"Even if you don't call me uncle," the official said with a smile, "you should call yourself 'a minister' instead of a 'common man'. Do you think Cheng Shilang's official rank is too low?"
"No, common people... Oh, I'm not a humble minister." Chen Ke was still a little nervous about meeting the famous Song Renzong, and then he returned to normal and said: "I really don't regard myself as an official. This minister, let alone
Just forgot."
"Hehehe, you can't forget it." The official waved his hand, and then someone from the palace brought two brocade piers.
Zhao Zongji thanked him and sat down.
Chen Ke didn't know whether he should sit down or not, and was a little stunned... The TV series in his previous life told him that there were many rules in the palace. For example, sitting was only given to senior ministers or princes like Zhao Zongji. For a little guy like himself,
It's good if you don't kneel down, so how can you expect to have a seat?
"Sit down." The official said with a smile: "Don't be formal. If you have a private chat with your family, just treat me as your uncle."
Chen Ke said he didn't dare and rested half of his buttocks on the Jindun.
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"Actually, we have been close friends for a long time." The official asked Chen Ke and Zhao Zongji to serve two bowls of angelica and red date soup and let them drink it to keep away the cold. After they finished the drink, they smiled and said: "You
The "Dictionary" is a preface written by an unknown person."
"The kindness of the official family," Chen Ke quickly stood up and said, "We are deeply impressed by this."
"Sit down and say, don't stand up all the time. You don't think it's uncomfortable, but I still feel uncomfortable." The official smiled and blamed: "What kind of kindness is that? You may not understand it yourself. This "Dictionary" is very important to the Song Dynasty."
means something."
"Wei Chen really didn't know," Chen Ke said softly, "I just thought it was something I should do, so I did it. I didn't think it would alarm the officials."
Zhao Zongji glanced at him quite unexpectedly, and said with a secret smile: 'I thought you didn't know how high the sky was in front of anyone, but you are as well-behaved as a kitten even if you are not in an official house.'
"Looking further, this is a prosperous age of culture and education, and our century-old national policy of the Song Dynasty has been prosperous because of this." The official smiled and said: "The number of people who know writing, read classics, know etiquette, and understand faith will be greatly increased, and our country will have a great success.
The prosperity of literature and education in the Song Dynasty will far exceed that of the eight generations."
"The officials are ridiculous." Chen Ke is so sweaty. Does the emperor want to open night classes for literacy?
